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Kori, just having a drinking contest is negligent and dangerous...they were putting poison down someone's throat...it is manslaughter, nothing less.
Hey, we were all 21 at one time and did some stupid dangerous things...kids do that, especially if they are pressured to keep drinking by the crowd. My point is, nobody can make a smart decision after they are drunk. Manny is right, this is beyond irresponsible, these people need to be jailed and tried for manslaughter.
How would you like this to happen to one of your relatives...it happens all too often. Binge drinking is dangerous and needs to be stopped and if it take some people being thrown in prison to get the attention, then so be it.
Kori, just having a drinking contest is negligent and dangerous...they were putting poison down someone's throat...it is manslaughter, nothing less.
You explain to me legaly how there is a difference when both involve the serving of alcohol to an intoxicated person, and I'll say you missed your calling.
This guy didn't buy a couple of bottles from a liqour store, he was given shots. It's the bars responsiblity to asses if it's ok to sell him liqour.
If you want to outlaw drinking contests, then that's a different story. But if you are upset that they served this guy too much in a drinking contest, then that's on the guy for entering.Kori, just having a drinking contest is negligent is dangerous
You can't sue the bar for serving too much, he entered and knew what it was. You can maybe try to pass a bill that all drinking contests are illegal.
But people can't just sue when they put themselves in dangerous situation. There's a level of personal liability. If you die falling off a mountain when you're mountain climbing, if you die skydiving, if you die drinking in a drinking contest, that's on you. These are high risk activities. Use your brain and just don't do it.
Actually, you can sue someone when they are wreckless and had the opportunity to stop something and didn't.
If you are at a bar and drunk off your ass, then it's their responsibility to say you've had enough.You explain to me legaly how there is a difference when both involve the serving of alcohol to an intoxicated person, and I'll say you missed your calling.
When you enter a drinking contest and they see you drunk off your ass, then it's NOT their responsibility to say you've had enough -- You entered the contest knowing full well that the point was to DRINK AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.
Just don't enter.
If you tell me this guy was already drunk when he was coerced into entering, that's a different story.
if that contest had been held in Texas I would not only own the bar but would wring that guys nut for every penny he had...
Seriously Kori...it is a fairly well established fact that a BAC over .35 is potentially fatal...Bar professionals of all people should know the dangers...continuing to feed those drunk assholes shots after they were WAY past the fatal limit was criminally negligent...
Y'all don't know how we handle bizniss down there. 50 tequilla shots ain't nothing. You know we have to be drunk off our asses to master the slow ass game of baseball.
in texas...it is the establishment's job to determine if someone has had too much... if someone gets drunk at your restaurant, kills himself on the way home...the last place to have served him can be held liable...
this contest took place in some other country... w/o the law, it is his responsibility for drinking so much
People entering drinking contests are fully aware of the dangers of alcohol poisoning as well, and they should choose not to enter them.Bar professionals of all people should know the dangers...
There's a level of personal responsiblity that is becoming non-existent in the world.
My guess is that since this was in the Dominican Republic, there's not going to be any major lawsuit or world-changing legislation come out of it.
except if the person was already drunk and not fully aware of anything...
I think this young man's death is attention enough to get me not to binge drink.
Yeah, that's what I already said.except if the person was already drunk and not fully aware of anything...
If you tell me this guy was already drunk when he was coerced into entering, that's a different story.
Kori, this bar offered money for people to drink themselves way past the legal and lethal limit, and they showed no responsibility at all by allowing people to consume a poison at those levels. They are liable, because they offered money for people to kill themselves.
Kori, this is no different than having a Russian Roulet contest.
Just because someone is dumb enough to join one, that does not mean that you are not liable when you offer it. If someone blows their brains out, even though they pulled the trigger, you are liable because you opened the contest.
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it depends on the laws of the country/state/county they are in... if there is no law against dangerous contests... the bar may not be held liable... for all we know they signed a waiver..
I am against frivolous law suits, but this is murder IMO.
Yes Jim, that would be true if drinking contests were illegal.Just because someone is dumb enough to join one, that does not mean that you are not liable when you offer it.
I don't care if it's the Dominican Republic or in the US, don't you think the bar made them sign a waiver?
then you can say...if one person is intoxicated when they sign the waiver, they had no idea of what they were signing..the waiver could still be void...
depends on the laws of the area..
Well that is the law in texas, if a bar serves you alcohol to the point you are drunk and you go out and hurt yourself or someone else, the bar can be held liable.
In some cases, bartenders in the US have been held responsible for serving drinks to someone who has then gone out and killed/maimed someone while DUI.
Kori, taking what you claim to its limit, a bartender could get off by always just claiming that they were holding a "contest" and therefore not responsible for continuing to serve the drinks.
LAWYER (to farmer on witness stand): "So, you admit it! You grew the corn used by the distillary to make the liquor bought by the bar which served my client, which caused him to have an accident while driving home drunk!"
in texas the bartender is not liable..the establishment is the one who gets sued..
I like a cold beer (or shot) as much as the next guy, but why do we wage a war against drugs and yet ignore that which kills the most?
Convenience.
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